Items to share (17 December)

• How to Write a Literature Review for a Dissertation: good practical guidance from Leo Casey

• Walking through doorways causes forgetting. The paper does not mention going upstairs, but the model they propose would work for that as well. There's a friendlier version from Scientific American here.

• A salutary reflection on how poor research leads to misconceptions in psychology. A comprehensive hatchet-job on a paper supposedly on embodied cognition, but addressing important questions about how research is communicated. A good paper to read for developing a critical perspective on research and its reporting.

• Here's another one trying to get a paper published, replicating a now-famous study (Bem, 2011) on predicting the future, but contesting the findings.

• How acquiring The Knowledge changes the brains of London cab drivers and see also here

• And of course I can't let the week pass without a mention of Christopher Hitchens; there's a compendium of appreciations and memoirs here. And here is his brother's sensitive piece (and I never thought I'd use that word in the context of Peter Hitchens).